I know many of you have seen me revise this shot before, but please bear with me. I managed to find the raw photo last night, which I thought had been deleted (imagine my excitement!) The first edition of this picture was edited in my pre-photoshop days with software that came with my camera and my printer. Once I got photoshop I then re-edited the same photo because I thought the original was lost forever.

Since I had the raw file, I went in last night and touched up the photo once again. Although, this time it was much more fun because I was starting from scratch and not trying to clean up the awful mess that my other editing programs had left.

So, I apologize to those of you who are sick of seeing this yet again, but I was so excited about how much cleaner this turned out that I just had to share it with everyone.

Here is my original submission for the comparison. [link]

Comments will be most welcome!


Note: A special thanks to for featuring this in his March '08 Journal!